I'm not quite sure I'm getting the distinction that "the work as a whole" is meant to be making.
Speaking for me [not Michelle]:
The review doesn't focus [generally] on one scene or one character or one plot line. It focuses on the entire book.
FanFic, IME, tends to take a very narrow plot-line or character. Maybe my experience is to the contrary, but that is what I've seen.
Frex:
An SG-1 fanfic that expands on the 100 days episode. So it is confined to that one episode, not the series as a whole
A short story in Terre d'Angel about one of Phedra's single-time clients. That story is about the client and doesn't span the triology.
While I agree that for a fanfic to work, one has to have read majority of the body of work to have the underpinning assumptions down, the story itself is generally a pretty narrow topic.
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Date: 2004-10-20 01:52 pm (UTC)Speaking for me [not Michelle]:
The review doesn't focus [generally] on one scene or one character or one plot line. It focuses on the entire book.
FanFic, IME, tends to take a very narrow plot-line or character. Maybe my experience is to the contrary, but that is what I've seen.
Frex:
An SG-1 fanfic that expands on the 100 days episode. So it is confined to that one episode, not the series as a whole
A short story in Terre d'Angel about one of Phedra's single-time clients. That story is about the client and doesn't span the triology.
While I agree that for a fanfic to work, one has to have read majority of the body of work to have the underpinning assumptions down, the story itself is generally a pretty narrow topic.
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